Vase And Plants Drawn With Fountain Pen, By A Machine

[JSolinger]

I like fountain pens, I like ink, I like paper and i like machines. So I use them togerther. The below image started out as a doodle and I felt I should see it through to the finish. The image is drawn using a Lamy Safari with and EF nib. The paper is 110# card stock and the ink is Aurora Blue. If you enjoyed this drawing I have others on my YouTube channel: Joseph Solinger

 

 

Edited January 28, 2018 by JSolinger

[Inkling13]

Any way to make a machine ourselves? Thats very neat!

[Runnin_Ute]

Very cool that you were able to figure out how to do this. Not exactly my style, but to each his own right?

 

Again, very nice work.

[inkstainedruth]

That's really neat! Thanks for posting.

I do have a couple of questions. How is the design plotted? (I noticed that there were times when the design did not go the way I would have expected). Is it the same kind of software as for embroidery machines (or 3D printers)? Or is it more like a mechanical system (like the automaton in the movie Hugo -- if you've seen it)?

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

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Edited January 28, 2018 by inkstainedruth

[JSolinger]

The drawing starts out as an image or a doodle that I like. Then I recreate and refine them to my liking using software like Inkscape which leaves me with a vector drawing. Then I convert the vector drawing to machine language using Vectric software. After some editing and finishing the machine program I set up one my pens in the cnc milling machine, setting the the angle to approximate how I hold a pen and setting contact pressure. I load the program and let the cnc mill do the drawing.

 

inkstainedruth, I think a Hugo-esc drawing machine would be an outstanding building experience. This works as a technically evolved version of such a creation. The cams, gears and linkages are now replaced with motors and electronic timing control. The mathematics remain the same.

 

I found a short video of an early robot:

 

https://youtu.be/bY_wfKVjuJM

[inkstainedruth]

Wow! That was really cool! Thanks for posting the second link as well.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[tamiya]

Nice work, never seen a mechanical use of Safari before

 

I'm always mesmerised by my old plotter doing its job. Got felttip pens for it, thought about trying a rollerball but never considered an FP.

 

Any way to make a machine ourselves? Thats very neat!

If you don't already own any commercial CNC or Plotter/cutter... best intro might be to look into reprap 3D printers.

 

Homemade 3D printers like reprap prusa would be easier to hack than something buying commercialised, cheaper than buying a Makerbot or Up!.